The common thread -- Memory -- Intervals -- Who, what, where, when, why? -- The bandwagon -- Double portrait with refrigerator magnets -- Asynchronic -- My last June in Chelsea -- And then I saw -- The mousetrap -- Jerusalem -- The author of Torah -- After Celan -- Dawn of evening -- Tenebrae -- Long-distance call to a friend who lived with AIDS as long as he could -- "The Report of my death was an exaggeration" -- A window on the Strait of Juan de Fuca -- A walrus tusk from Alaska -- Photography -- American portraits -- Bloodwork -- A citizen out of work explains -- Olfactory -- Hudson Heights -- Who said that? -- The American hop hornbeam -- Audubon's green-shank -- To a jack-in-the-box -- Deinos -- The wife to Potiphar -- Phantasmachia -- After Ghalib -- Whether -- New York three decades on -- Replacing a part -- Overture -- To a lover who is HIV-positive -- Coltrane's "Equinox" -- Seeing all the Vermeers